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FFICE.

HENRI RAYMOND VIDAL, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

THIAZIN DYE.

S]?EGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 601,363, dated March 29, 1898. Application filed February 26, 1897. Serial No. 625,209. (Specimens-l Patented in France July 3, 1896, No. 231,188.

scribed in the following specification.

This invention has reference to the production of coloring-matters from thiazin derivatives having hydroxyl or amidogen in the para position in each nucleus by reaction onone or more such derivatives (or mixture for yielding the same) with sulfur or sulfur and ammonia, causing concentration of the thiazin molecules to tetraphenetrithiazin products The black color is paradioxytetraphenetrithiazin. It is soluble with blue coloration in concentrated sulfuric acid, soluble with like coloration in hot alkalies, soluble with green coloration in sulfid of sodium, and with yellow coloration in the meta-bisulfites.

Example: I heat in a close vessel at a temperature of 170 to 220 centigrade for about five hours with constant agitation paradioxythiazin, forty-six kilograms; sulfur, three and one-half kilograms liquid ammonia,three kilograms. The sulfur and ammonia act likewise on 'paramidooxythiazin to give rise to paradiamidotetraphenetrithiazin, the reaction being written like the preceding.

Example: I heat in a close vessel at a temperature of from 170 to 220 centigrade for about five hours with constant agitation paramidooxythiazin, forty-six kilograms; sulfur, three and one-half kilograms; liquid ammonia, three kilograms.

If I cause sulfur and ammonia to react upon a mixture of paradioxythiazin and paramidocondensation of two molecules of paradiaoxy-- thiazin under the following conditions:

/ NH NH NH OH oxythiazimlobtain paraoxyamidotetraphenetrithiazin.

r NH NH W/R W I mean to include the equivalents of ammonia, particularly phospham.

The new body, paraoxyarnidotetraphenetrithiazin, mentioned above, may also be ob- 5 tained in admixture with paramidooxythiazin by the reaction of sulfur upon a mixture of paramidophenol and paraphenylenediamin in equal parts.

Example: I heat in a closed iron diges- I0 ter provided with an agitator in an oil-bath Example: I heat in a closed iron digester at 220 centigrade for five hours paramidq phenol, eleven kilos; paraphenylenediamin, eleven kilos; sulfur, six and one-half kilos.

If I cause sulfur alone to react as before on paramidothiazin, I obtain a black colorin g-matter paradiamidotetraphenetrithiazin, which is able to undergo a further condensation and to furnish coloring-matter slightly soluble in the alkaline sulfids.

I can also cause sulfur to react on a mixprovided with an agitator for five hours at tureof paramidooxythiazin andparadiamido- 220 paradiamidothiazin, forty-six kilograms sulfur, six and one-half kilograms.

Example: I heat in a closed iron digester 30 provided with an agitator for five hours at 220 paramidooxythiazin, twenty-three kilograms; paradiamidothiazin, twenty-three kilograms; sulfur,six and one-half kilograms.

I can replace in the preceding reaction the 3 5 mixture of paramidooxy and paradiamidothiazin by the reduction mass either of paranitrooxyazobenzene or of oxydisazobenzene (C I-I N:NO H N:NO H,.OH) and sodium sulfid at 250 in an oil-bath.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The'method of obtaining coloring-matters from para substitution products of thi- 5 azin derivatives, by reaction with sulfur on one or more such products, or mixtures for yielding the same, and consequent condensation of the thiazin molecules to tetraphenetrithiazin products, one or more of said thi- 5o azin derivatives having amidogen in the para position in one nucleus and one of the specified hydrogen-containing groups in the para position in the other nucleus, and the resultant tetraphenetrithiazins having one of the 5 5 specified hydrogen-containing groups in the para position in each of the nuclei at the ends of the chain of four nuclei, substantially as described.

thiazin. I then obtain paramidooxytetraphenetrithiazin NH O/S\[/ on 2. The method of obtaining coloring-matters from para substitution products of thiazin derivatives, by reaction with sulfur and ammonia on one or more such products, or mixture yielding the same, and consequent condensation of the thiazin molecules to tetraphenetrithiazin products, one or more of said thiazin derivatives having one of the specified hydrogen-containing groups in the para position in each of the thiazin nuclei and the resultant tetraphenetrithiazin having one of the specified hydrogen-containing groups in the para position in each of the nuclei at the ends of the chain of four nuclei, substantially as described.

3. The described coloring-matters derived from thiazin compounds, which coloring-matters are tetraphenetrithiazin products with hydroxyl or amidogen in the para position in each of the nuclei at the ends of the chain of four nuclei, and are black powders soluble in concentrated sulfuric acid, in sulfites and soluble in hot alkalies generally, as set forth.

NH2 NH In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. c

HENRI RAYMOND VIDAL. Witnesses:

EDWARD P. MAOLEAN, ANTOINE ROUSSARMAT. 

